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The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) in collaboration with the Ghana Association of Banks, has arrested four (4) persons engaged in SIM swap fraud.

According to the institute, this will help bring competition amongst the various shipping lines while helping to address the issue of the depreciating cedi due to significant funds that are repatriated out of the country by these international liners.

According to the 2020 State Ownership Report, the SOEs recorded a GH¢2.61 billion loss in 2020, although that was about 50 percent better over the 2019 aggregate loss of ¢5.16 billion. This has pushed the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, to call on the managements of the SOEs for more urgent and collective work to address these losses. But, the economist stressed on his advises that, some SOEs over the years have been saddled with debt over issues of mismanagement among others.

He chided President Nana Akufo-Addo’s comments he made during the recent interview with the BBC, where the President sought to defend the state of the Ghanaian economy as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian – Ukraine War.

According to a Bloomberg report, the Ghana Cedi depreciated by 18.21 percent against the U.S dollar in the first quarter of 2022. This places the Cedi as the worst-performing currency in Africa while the Angolan Kwanza is the best-performing currency in Africa as it currency appreciated by 24 percent against the dollar.

Although the telcos have assured to do their best to ensure the required systems are put in place to collect the E-levy, they say, the right infrastructure must be put in place, and tested to ensure that they are fit for purpose before going live.

The Bank of Ghana’s latest forecast still depicts an elevated inflation profile in the near term, with inflation falling within the medium-term target band within a year.

Below are a number of electronic transactions that will be affected and those that will be exempted when the implementation kicks in later in May 2022.

Ghana since 2007 has awarded 18 oil blocks to various oil exploration and production companies. Out this, only three blocks have been developed and producing, that include the Jubilee field, TEN fields and the SGN field.

The growth of ecosystem transactions such as merchant payments, international remittances, bill payments and bulk disbursements, together with interoperable transactions, are accounting for a more significant share of the global mobile money transaction mix.